eBay planed to sell its recommendation engine site StumbleUpon

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Sept. 23, according to foreign media, science and technology blog TechCrunch said, eBay has hired Deutsche Bank to help to sell its recommendation engine's Web site StumbleUpon.

According to foreign media reports, in May 2007, eBay spent 75,000,000 U.S. dollars bought in 2001 for the establishment of StumbleUpon, the site hope that the recommendation engine can help enhance the eBay user base the number of large-scale. StumbleUpon may have less than satisfactory performance, which eBay wants to their re-sale of his house.

According to comScore data shows that StumbleUpon global capacity of 1,300,000 visitors, page views 25,000,000. However, a year earlier, the volume of Web site visitors have been as high as 4,400,000, 31,000,000 page views.

However, StumbleUpon the number of registered users has been growing steadily. In April 2008, the number of registered users of the Web site were 5,000,000. Until September 22, 2008, the site's registered users has reached 6,020,000 people.

Currently, eBay has not yet disclose the asking price.

eBay Won Diffany in the Prosecution of Trademark Infringement Case

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On July 15, according to foreign media reports, eBay won Diffany in the case of trademark infringement and achieved a major victory for justice in the long prosecution.

Manhattan federal district court Monday that the obligation to protect trademarks online jewellers Diffany shall be vested in a company itself, rather than eBay and other auction platform. Diffany after the prosecution said, eBay website to sell counterfeit jewelry.

The court Judge Richard Sullivan (Richard J. Sullivan) ruling, eBay do not have to "only be based on trademark infringement on the site of generalized knowledge" and responsible for trademark infringement case. This decision once again confirmed that Internet companies do not have to take the initiative to patent or trademark Web filtering products to take measures, but on intellectual property rights owners monitoring sites, as long as retailers in the patent owner complaints-related products to today.

This ruling marks the eBay recently, "the court Yun" substantially improved. A week ago, a French court ordered eBay to the French luxury goods maker LVMH paid 60 million U.S. dollars; April, a German appeals court decision, eBay must take measures to prevent the sale of counterfeit Rolex watches.

Diffany on eBay's trademark infringement case the prosecution is initiated in 2004, so far has continued for four years. The investigation found that through the sale of the majority of eBay Diffany products are fakes. Diffany lawyers said, eBay directly profit from the trademark infringement; eBay lawyers said that as YouTube or MySpace, the company's only obligation in the patent owner complaints will be under-related products.

Sullivan issued this morning in the award said: "Diffany failed to prove that eBay consciously encourage others to weaken its trademark."